because big government is not the answer

Life is so much more mellow with a cat. Hence the mixes being a bit deeper tonight. If you’re download limit isn’t shot (no such thing of course in Korea), why not try the first one in HD? The second one is particularly soulful; probably a bit better later on in the evening. A shame it’s only available at 240p, but anyway.

PS Stoked. When they build new apartment complexes in Korea, usually more people apply than there are apartments. Because of thise, there’s a lottery system for applicants. We selected carefully etc. etc. and were lucky enough to be offered arguably the best apartment in the complex!

Yay! 🙂

UPDATE

Loving DJ Fiesta (1st mix). Highly recommended playing this before the 2nd one.

😎

UPDATE II

Last mix the best. Takes you on a journey; the best djing there is.

UPDATE III

MOAR!!! But still keeping it reasonably mellow… and available in 1080p. Beautiful.

A new security tunnel has been unveiled at an IATA (International Air Transport Association) conference in Singapore yesterday which will slash the amount of time required for screening at airports.

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The so-called ‘smart tunnel’ is 6.5m long, and uses the latest security technology. No longer will you have to fiddle with your coins, source that plastic baggy with your toothpaste and hair goo, and take off your steel-toed kicks. Passengers can just walk on through fully-clothed with bag in tow. An iris scan, metal and bomb check, and liquid analysis will all take place lickity-split.

The TSA would be mad not to adopt it. Some countries may not however as it uses that bad, bad profiling. 🙄

In contrast to most environmental science meetings, climate skepticism was widespread among the thousand geoscientists from Canada, the United States and other countries who took part in GAC-MAC 2011 (the Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Society of Economic Geologists and the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits).

Whoa! Will this be added to the “national conversation” we’re having in Australia right now?*

Leading off the GAC-MAC climate symposium was fellow Australian, Ian Plimer, professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. In a keynote presentation entitled Human-induced climate change: Why I am skeptical, Plimer completely dismantled the greenhouse-gas-driven climate-change hypothesis. He showed how climate has varied naturally on all time scales and how recent changes are not unusual. Plimer explained the lack of meaningful correlation between the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) and planetary warming and cooling, and how “climate models throw no new light on climate processes.” He concluded, “Pollution kills, CO2 is plant food, H2O vapour is the main greenhouse gas…. Humans can adapt to future changes.”

And as for the scientists supporting the man-made global warming hypothesis?

Did they not know that climate was a major focus of this, the largest geologic conference in the country?

They knew. According to Miall, even though some were directly invited, they either refused to participate or ignored the invitation.“The people on the ­IPCC side generally will not debate,” explained Miall. “Anything that’s brought up that they disagree with, they say has been dealt with and is no longer considered important, or is a minor effect. This is often quite wrong.”

Anyway, in further good climate news coming out of Canada, the oil sands boom is going gangbusters – and we’re talking 171.3 billion barrels gangbusters – to the point whereby it could well change the balance of the global oil market.

When you couple that with the natural gas boom in the USA, it makes windmills look kind of quaint.